Fear not. First of all, occasional contributors are perfectly compatible with LuaJIT. Take a look at the Git log. Many of the commits are bugfixes that don't im

Fear not. First of all, occasional contributors are perfectly compatible with LuaJIT. Take a look at the Git log. Many of the commits are bugfixes that don't impact the overall "perfection". It's not a crystalline structure: http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/shortlog http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/shortlog You can even get a list of those commits that are contributed, mostly by the exact process that you describe as being inappropriate: http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git?a=search&st=commit&s=Thanks+to&.cgifields=sr http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git?a=search&st=commit&s=Than... Also, I don't think CloudFlare have the intention of entirely relying on sporadic contributions. As they said earlier this month, "we will be investing significantly in its development and are interested in hearing from people who would like to work full time on LuaJIT as employees of CloudFlare." (I'd be curious to know how that's moving along!)